Missing Paperboys /// Chapter 2 /// Nebraska Nightmare
From True Crime Garage by TRUE CRIME GARAGE
April 8, 2026 · 1h 1m
About this episode
This episode discusses the tragic disappearances of newspaper boys in the early 1980s in Iowa and Nebraska.
In the early eighties middle America experienced tragedies that no parent could imagine. Newspaper boys were disappearing. They would step out into the dark of the early morning hours to deliver the daily news to their neighborhoods and some of them did not return. It started in Iowa and then moved to Nebraska. Kids were plucked off the street just a few steps into their routes and some have vanished forever. One year after Johnny Gosch went missing, Danny Joe Eberle was abducted during his early morning paper route.
People in this episode
Host: TRUE CRIME GARAGE
Topics covered
- abduction
- missing persons
- newspaper delivery
- 1980s
- true crime
Keywords
- missing paperboys
- abduction
- true crime
- Johnny Gosch
- Danny Joe Eberle
Mentioned in this episode
Places: Iowa, Nebraska
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